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Harvard, as part of the domestic brand Great Wall Automobile series, continues to sell well at home, which has also supported the Great Wall to promote the brand to overseas markets and set up its first overseas factory in Russia. A few days ago, however, there were media reports that the Harvard F7x produced at a foreign base by Harvard of the Great Wall was suspected to have had a number of burning accidents.

According to media reports, according to the information learned by Harvard Russian fan club, there have been a number of suspected burning accidents of Harvard F7x in Russia recently, and at least five have occurred in its forum. It is worth noting that the spontaneous combustion models all belong to the Harvard F7x and occur in the outdoor environment of minus 30-40 degrees Celsius. It is really surprising that the vehicle is still burning in this extremely low temperature, and the incident has attracted attention one after another.

Judging from the pictures taken at the scene, some have been burned into empty shells, some smoke while driving, and some seats have been burned through and suddenly caught on fire when parked on the side of the road. From the point of view of one of the vehicles involved in the fire, the vehicle caught fire at the bottom of the car, and one of the accident cars even burned through the rear seat.

It is understood that most of the fires in these vehicles involved occurred at the end of December, all in the outdoor environment of minus 30-40 degrees Celsius in Siberia, Russia. Some car owners reflected that some car owners suspected to have used the remote start function before the fire, and through the video released by the car owner, it is obvious that the vehicle spontaneous combustion occurred in the static state. However, as the vehicles were spontaneously ignited in a static state, there were no reports of casualties.

According to local media reports, Russian local car owners have contacted Harvard officials for this situation, but have not yet received the specific cause of the accident. Officials said they would not comment until the cause of the accident was investigated.

According to public information, Great Wall invested more than 500 million US dollars to build the Tula plant in Russia in 2019, which was officially completed and put into production in early June last year. The first model of Harvard F7x Great Wall, which was put into production at the Tula plant, went on sale overseas last year, with a guiding price of 1449000 rubles (153900 yuan), not made and exported from China.

However, the design of Harvard F7X model is consistent with that in China, and there are no similar cases in the domestic market at present.

According to the reflection of the owners involved, the remote start function of the vehicle involved may be affected by the oil circuit and circuit of the heating seat. According to the domestic models on sale, except for the flagship models, they are not equipped with rear seat heating system.

Therefore, according to professional analysis, in addition to the top-equipped models, if the rest are non-top-matched models, it may involve third-party installation by local dealers, or private installation by users, which may lead to fire.

This year, COVID-19 Motor is still in the upstream because of the impact of the black swan incident on the overall economic environment. Great Wall sold 145240 vehicles in November, up 26 per cent from a year earlier. Among them, overseas sales of Great Wall reached 9302 in November, up 94 per cent from a year earlier.

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